The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:

They don't notify winners by email.

You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.

They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.

They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.

They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.

They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.

They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!

This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of Bekijk trekking Loterij Euro Online Promotions held in Rotterdam,The Netherlands on the 24th of August 2007.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 500,000 e-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies selected by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.
No tickets were sold.The selected e-mail addresses were attached to tickets numbers which were spinned by our ballot machine.After this automated computer ballot,your e-mail address attached to ticket number 710160033843 emerged as one of five winners in the category "A" with the following winning information :
REFERENCE N0 :KH067/0068183JK
BATCH N0: KC-778/0617569601
You have been approved for a payment therefore of EURO 300,000(THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO)cash prize which will be paid to you upon authoriZation by The Netherlands Games Board.
Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Your prize has also been insured with the winning e-mail address.
You should contact our accredited agent that will assist you to obtain the authorization of payment from the Netherlands games board on the information below:
Contact person: Pieter Friesinger
VN Kozijn
E-mail: vnkozijn@mynet.com
Remember to quote your winning information,that is your reference/batch number and your personal information as stated below:
1. Name in full
2. Address
3. Nationality
4. Age
5. Phone/Fax
NOTE: All winning must be claimed not later than 15 working days from this notification.